*3.15—3:45 Todd Vision, Assistant Director, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina: An Introduction to the Use of Anatomy Ontologies for the Identification of Genes Underlying Complex Traits

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*3.15—3:45 Todd Vision, Associate Director, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina: An Introduction to the Use of Anatomy Ontologies for the Identification of Genes Underlying Complex Traits

This meeting is focused on the application of ontologies to studies in evolutionary biology and related disciplines, with a particular emphasis on studies of the phenotype.

Goals

(1) Introducing what ontologies are, how they should be built, what makes an ontology useful, and how ontologies help people collaborate across disciplines;

(2) Giving illustrations of ontologies actually being used to address problems of interest to evolutionary biologists;

(3) Networking and planning: what do we do next in order to advance ontology-based information integration in evolutionary biology?

Registration
Registration will be open to attendees of the Evolution 2008 conference at no additional cost.

Draft Agenda

9:00-10.00 Barry Smith, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo; Lead Scientist of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology: Tutorial: An Introduction to Ontology for Evolutionary Biology

10.00-10.30 Break

10.30-11.00 Chris Mungall, University of California, Berkeley: An Introduction to the PATO Phenotype Ontology

3.15—3:45 Todd Vision, Associate Director, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina: An Introduction to the Use of Anatomy Ontologies for the Identification of Genes Underlying Complex Traits